Register, ventilator, or the like.



Patented lune 3, |902.

No. 70|,4a|.

H. s. HART.

REGISTER, VENTILATOR, 0R THE LIKE.

(Application filed Mar. 26, 1901.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I,

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ATTORNIEY No, 70|,48L Patented lune 3, |902.

i H. s. HART. REGISTER, VENTILATGR, 0R THE LIKE.

v (Application led Mar. 26, 1901.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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HOl/VARD S. I'IART, OF NEW ISRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HART da COOLEY COMPANY, OF NEWV BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

REGISTER, VENT-sharon, on THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters .'Eatent No. 701,481, dated J une 3, 1902. Application filed March 26, 1901. Serial No. 52,905. (Np model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern: stretches them tightly across the opening of Beit known that I, HOWARD S. HART, acitithe frame. This stretching is accomplished zen of the United States, residing at New Britby the drawing out of the metal during the ain, Hartford county, Connecticut, have inprocess of formingthe riveted head. The form 5 Vented certain new and useful Improvements of weave and size of mesh which the strips are 5 5 in Registers, Ventilators, or the Like,of which given may be varied, as desired. While it is the following is a full, clear, and exact depreferred to havethe strips woven together, scription. the same is not of course absolutely essential.

My invention relates to hot or cold air reg- In the form shown in Figs. 3 and 4t the flat- Io isters, ventilators, and the like; and it contened Wires B Bare arched in cross-section 6o sists in an improved top plate therefor. between the points of intersection, as shown My invention has for its object the attainat D and D', so as to give arounded appearment of great strength, combined with lightance to the upper side of the said strips and ness,simplicity,and economyof construction. to afford additionalstrength. While it is i5 In the drawings, which show the preferred preferred to make the frame of the top plate 65 embodimentl of my invention, Figure l is a of a single piece, obviously it might be made plan View of the top plate, and Fig. 2 is a secof several pieces properly secured together. tion taken on the line XX of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is It should be understood that the top plate may a fragmentary view of a detail of a modificabe used independently of abox-like structure 2o tion. Fig. t is a cross-sectional view on the such as is generally employed with a hot-air 7o line Y Y of Fig. 3. registerin which slatsare provided, oritmight A is a frame which may preferably be be used with such abox. formed of sheet metal. A is a flange extend- The variations I have suggested are a few ing downwardly from the inner edge of said of the obvious ones which could be made f 5 frame. without departing from the spirit or scope of 75 I3 B are strips of metal, preferably of flat-l my'invention. tened wire, which are woven together and fas- When the top plate is used with a hot-air tened to the depending flange A of the frame, register having the usual box and slats, it is y preferably by riveting the ends, as at C. This obvious that the boxportion might be formed 3o method of construction provides a very strongA integrally withthe border portion of the top 8o and light top plate and one which will bear plate by extending the flange shown down greater shocks than a cast-metal top plate of sufficiently far to make the sides and ends the same weight. When asevere shock is apof the box. This form of register is well plied to the top plate, the woven strips spring known and does not need special illustration.

3 5 slightly and ease the effect of the blow, where- What I claim is- 85 as a cast-metal top plate would be shattered l. A top plate for registers and the like, by the same blow. The elasticity of the strips comprising a plate having an opening, a deis such that they instantly recover after bepending flange adjacent said opening, metal ing sprung. strips stretched across said opening and se- 4 0 The simplicity of the construction of the cured in position by the upset ends thereof. 9o top plate issuchthatgreat economy results in 2. A top plate for registers and the like, the manufacture. The frame maybe formed comprising a plate having an opening, a defrom sheet metal by suitable dies. The holes pending flange adjacent said opening, metal in the flange A Vmay be punched and the strips stretched across said opening and se- 45 strips B easily cut the desired lengths, while cured in position by riveting the ends there- 95 the insertion of the strips and riveting of the of, one set of said strips crossing another set same is a simple matter. The frame being of said strips. provided with a depending flange makes a 3. A top plate for registers and 'the like, veryrigidandstiffsupportforthewires, while comprising a frame and flattened wires at- 50 the action of riveting the wires to the flange tachcd to said frame and stretched across the roo same, some of said Wires crossingother of said l porting` surface of said top plate, the said Wires, and said Wires being arched in crosssection between the points of intersection.

4. A top platte for registers and the like, comprising a anged frame and iattened wires riveted to the flange of said frame and stretched across the opening, a. portion of some of said Wires being arched in crosssection.

5. A top plate for registers, ventilators and the like comprising,r 2t frame, strips secured to said frame forming.;` the bearing and supstrips being Woven together and archedin cross-section at those portions between the 15 points of their intersection one with the other.

Signed at New Britain, Connecticut, this 19th clay of March, 1901.

HOWARD S. HART.

Vitnesses:

CLARIssA E. BENTLEY, E. W. CHRIST. 

